Texturing low poly models for mobile devices

Jernej

I have seen that this forum has many great artists. I hope you can help me. I know how to model, but when i get to texturing i suck. I mean i suck when i have to pint low poly models, with like 500-1500 tris. Does anyone have any good tutorials for painting such models? Thanks for your help:)

Eric Chadwick

There used to be a ton of low-poly painting tuts, but a lot of them have disappeared.

These should help though
http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials#Painting_Stylistic_Textures
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryConceptFundamentals

Jernej

Heh. I noticed that xD. It is hard to find any good texturing tutorials.

Mark Dygert

It really isn't "low poly texturing" but more regular painting where a firm foundation in the basics reigns supreme. The second set of links Eric posted is probably the most useful, but really you're asking how do I paint, which there are other boards like conceptart.org that have better info than a poly pushing forum.

Eric Chadwick

Yep, you probably just need to start drawing, and keep drawing, every single day.

This one, from the first link, is pretty good (as are the rest of them!)...
http://www.michaeldashow.com/tips_texturepainting.html

A great quote... "Keep painting. There's no secret technique here, no magic tech tip that will instantly make your texture look better. The key to this part is just to paint really well." ... and to paint really well you mostly just need lots and lots of practice.